Imagine that you only have access to a workstation with Docker for Desktop installed, but no possibility to add or change anything else on this workstation. Now you want to do some proof of concepts and code some sample application using Python. Unfortunately, Python is not installed on your computer. What can you do? What if you could run a whole development environment inside a container, including code editor and debugger? What if, at the same time, you could still have your code files on your host machine?
Containers are awesome and genius engineers have come up with solutions for exactly this kind of problem.
Let's try this for a Python application:
- We will be using Visual Studio ...